{"id":2865,"date":"2021-04-21T22:17:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-21T20:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2021-04-26T14:01:07","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T12:01:07","slug":"participating-at-off-biennale-budapest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vesna-bukovec.net\/eng\/archives\/2865","title":{"rendered":"Participating at OFF-Biennale Budapest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exhibition:<\/strong> Order and Dreams, OFF-Biennale Budapest: INHALE!
\nVenue:<\/strong> Online (Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives)
\nDate:<\/strong> 23 April \u2013 30 May 2021<\/p>\n

Artists: Damir O\u010dko, Daniel Baker, Kata Sziv\u00f3s\u2013Dominika Trapp\u2013No\u00e9mi Varga, Kriszti\u00e1n Krist\u00f3f, Tam\u00e1s P\u00e1ll, Vesna Bukovec
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\nCurator: Katalin Sz\u00e9kely<\/strong>
\nResearch: researchers of Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives<\/p>\n

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Exhibition Order and Dreams<\/em> is one of the OFF-Biennale’s 14 programs. It presents the context of the poem \u201cA Breath of Air!\u201d which inspired the whole edition of the biennale.<\/p>\n

The poem \u201cA Breath of Air!\u201d by Attila J\u00f3zsef was written in November 1935. Apparently, it was a time of peace and plenty: Europe\u2014and Hungary\u2014had overcome the crisis of the Great Depression; the order was restored. But what kind of order was it that the poet \u201cdidn\u2019t dream of\u201d? The research and exhibition project presents the political and social context of the poem through archival materials, while contemporary artworks offer its possible 21st-century reading.<\/p>\n

More about the exhibition<\/a>
\nDirect link to the exhibition<\/a><\/p>\n


\nAbout the biennale<\/strong><\/p>\n

The third edition of the largest independent contemporary art event in Hungary, OFF-Biennale Budapest is titled INHALE! OFF-Biennale in 2021 premiers 14 projects that look at ecology, Eastern European nationalisms, and political imagination; with a focus on artistic propositions that do more than just point to these complex, entangled problems.
\nThe 14 projects, specifically created for this occasion, will be accompanied by public programs as part of the Living Room project. Living Room is a preliminary event of documenta fifteen at OFF-Biennale Budapest, which will take place in conjunction with OFF\u2019s invitation to documenta fifteen as a lumbung member.<\/p>\n

OFF-Biennale Budapest is the largest independent contemporary art event in Hungary. It started in 2014 as a grassroots initiative, a “garage” biennale set up by a small group of art professionals in order to create a platform for exchange between art practitioners and other members of society, to strengthen the local independent art scene. OFF has never applied for Hungarian public funding and steered clear of state-run art institutions. This is a political statement as much as a practical solution to protect freedom of artistic expression and professional integrity.<\/p>\n

offbiennale.hu<\/a>
\nfb: offbiennalebudapest<\/a>
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I am participating with the series of drawings In vendar me briga \/ And yet I do bother<\/a> (2019) presented for online exhibition in a video form. My work is included in the chapter 5 My Homeland.<\/p>\n

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Curator Katalin Sz\u00e9kely’s text about my work:<\/p>\n

The utopian impetus of the avant-garde was broken by the realities of the 1930s. Many avant-garde artists were chased away or crushed by the various regimes of the 20th century. In this moment of crisis, some artists retreated to their ivory towers, focusing on the matters of their own m\u00e9tier. Others decided to join forces with the political powers they still believed in, often at the cost of losing their artistic integrity. And some continued to believe that the world can be changed through their words and works. And what can be said about the impetus of the socially-engaged art of the 21st century? In our moment of crisis, do artists decide to stay out of socio-political issues that\u2014as individuals\u2014they do not have any major influence over? Or do they still believe that art can have a say in these matters? Do they still bother?<\/p>\n

During the last decade, the drawings and videos by Vesna Bukovec gained her recognition in and outside of Slovenia as an artist dealing with the burning issues of today\u2019s society: the consequences of neoliberal ideology, the socio-political reality in Slovenia, the refugee crisis, and the role of women in contemporary society. The title of the series of drawings\u00a0And yet I do bother<\/em>, now presented in a form of video produced for the OFF-Biennale Budapest, is a response to her previous series of drawings with the ironic title\u00a0I can\u2019t be bothered \u2026<\/em>\u00a0[Briga me \u2026, 2018], in which she exposed the passivity of people who only care about personal matters, completely neglecting the wider socio-political issues. The drawings of\u00a0And yet I do bother<\/em>\u00a0takes widely circulated media images of brave women from the history of the 20th and 21st centuries, who, in the words of curator and art historian Nata\u0161a Kov\u0161ca, \u201cfought and are still fighting for social change as well as against social, political and sexual inequalities, from the suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst to the Swedish climate change activist Greta Thunberg, along with some unknown names. No matter whether known or anonymous women protesters are involved, images that according to the artist became \u2018a symbol of the fight against oppression\u2019 create hope that the world can be changed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"OFF-Biennale<\/a><\/td>\nOrder and Dreams
\nOFF-Biennale Budapest: INHALE!
\n23 April \u2013 30 May 2021<\/p>\n

Artists: Damir O\u010dko, Daniel Baker, Kata Sziv\u00f3s\u2013Dominika Trapp\u2013No\u00e9mi Varga, Kriszti\u00e1n Krist\u00f3f, Tam\u00e1s P\u00e1ll, Vesna Bukovec<\/p>\n

Curator: Katalin Sz\u00e9kely<\/p>\n

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